Improvement in paper-files



JOHN A. SHANNON.

Improvement in Paper Files.

N0. 121,671. Patented Dec.5,1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. SHANNON, OF PERRYSBURG, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,671, dated December5, 1871.

To all whoin it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN A. SHANNON, of Perrysburg, in the county ofWVood and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in aPaper-File and Binder; and I do declare that the following is a true andaccurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing and to the letters of refer ence marked thereon and being a partof this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of thefile of a publication bound with my improvement, and Fig. 2 is aperspective view, showing the file open ready to receive a number, withthe upper half of the last-filed number torn away to show the tape.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The nature of this invention relates to an improved and simplifiedconstruction of a cheap and reliable file for publications, which, whenfilled, may be used to bind a volume. The invention consists in thepeculiar construction and arrangement and the method of operating thedevice, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing, A represents a wooden an glerod, made of a square rodrabbeted out to form in cross-section two limbs of a right angle, a a,as shown. To the former are secured several upward-proj ectin g metallicpins, 1), and to the latter is hinged a wooden strip, A, by hinges c atthe edge. If a volume is to be bound in the file the book-board covers 0should be tacked to the inner edges of the limb to and strip A. D arerubber webbing or other elastic rings or bands, one of which is securedto each end of the filerod A to hold the strip A closed down whenbrought over its ends, as shown in Fig. l, and

the pins 12 should be long enough to project into openings or sockets (1made in the inner face of the strip to receive them.

To prevent the papers from being torn 011' or away from the pins acontinuous tape or cord, E, should be used in filing in the followingmanner: Open the tile as shown in Fig. 2; then open the paper to befiled and press it down so that the pins will protrude upward throughthe right half of the center margin; then, from the upper end, press thetape on the pins, letting the tape hang below the bottom of the page;then bring down the other half of the paper; another paper may now befiled in the same manner, bringing the tape up through the middle on thepins, as before; and so on until the volume is completed, when it maybebound by turning over and clinchiug the pointed ends of the pins. If acord be used instead of a tape, itmay be passedin the fold back of thepins. This is the proper method of filing and binding a volume when allthe numbers are furnished at once; but for filing current publicationsthe file-rod should be turned end for end from the position shown inFig. 2, and the numbers filed sem'atim thereon, when they will readbook-wise in the order of their publication.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The construction and arrangement of the angle-rod A having the strip Ahinged thereto, and provided with the pins 11, the elastic bands D, andthe cord or tape E, with or without the covers 0, as and for the purposeset forth.

JOHN A. SHANNON.

Witnesses:

MYRON H. CHURCH,

HARRY S. SPRAGUE. (146)

